Empty Bowls

The grade 5 classes and their families took part in an "Empty Bowls" evening held in the gym of our school on Thursday.  In preparation for this evening each class studied poverty and homelessness.  We read stories, watched the Hannah Taylor DVD, wrote Home poems, discussed and experienced a Hunger Banquet, which represented the three different income based groups in our society.  The experience was eye opening for the students.  It's interesting to observe how compassionate the students are towards one another, which leaves a sense of hope for a better future.  Each class made soup in preparation of our Empty Bowls evening.  Every student made a clay bowl, which they painted.  The bowls will be a reminder to students of all the empty bowls in the world.  We realized, through some research, that if everyone would share we could feed the world's population
twice.  People die of hunger and malnutrition every day.  If only people would share...
Here are some pictures of our Empty Bowls evening.
We collected tin for the bin and  a silver collection, which will be donated to our local food bank.